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adjectives for my assets

English translation: What are your assets?

08:01 Jan 31, 2003
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
English term or phrase: adjectives for my assets
suppose i am asked what are my strengths so i need some adjectives to specify my assets.
vineet jhaveri
Selected answer:What are your assets?
Explanation:
Do you know what your strengths (and weaknesses) are? That alone would be a good asset. It is called self-knowledge. It ranks very high on the list of personal (and professional) virtues.

Others who know you very well are often a good source of knowledge about the characteristics to which you, like all of us, may have a blind spot. Ask your friends and acquaintences if you are genuinely interested in gaining greater self-knowledge. You will be surprised to hear some of the things (good and bad) they will tell you about yourself.

The rest of us in ProZland have no clue because we do not know you. If all you want is a list of adjectives, try a standard manul on virtues. look the relevant virtues up in a thesaurus, and decide which terms are most useful for your purpose.

I don't see anything in your question about your purpose. The assumption by other members seems to be that you are going through an interview process, possibly in conjunction with a job application. That may or may not be the case.

If you are being interviewed for a job, a list of adjectives won't help you. HR interviewers are not interested in a list of adjectives (or nouns, for that matter). They are interested in one or two salient characteristics that you can support with real examples. Verbs are probably your best munitions here. For that, you hardly need any help. If you know what the characteristics are but have difficulty naming them, try describing them to us, and we will help you name them.


Fuad
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Fuad Yahya
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
5 +9What are your assets?
Fuad Yahya
5 +6punctual
jerrie
4 +2adjectives to describe the best parts of your personality
awilliams
4conscientious, thorough
Refugio
3how can I best describe my own qualities
Jonathan MacKerron


  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
adjectives to describe the best parts of your personality


Explanation:
Not quite sure what you're after here, but "adjectives to specify" your "assets" means:

adjectives- word to describe
asset- "anything valuable or useful." (your "strengths")
therefore sample adjectives might be: generous, polite, ..etc.


awilliams
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:06
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 201

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sarah Ponting
2 hrs
  -> thanks Sarah - wasn't entirely sure what the question was, but hey
agree  Jamiewalke: mmm.... a bit dicey
16 hrs
  -> :)
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
conscientious, thorough


Explanation:
If it is for a job interview, the strength should relate to work. If they ask you for a weakness, you can say, I am a perfectionist. This is the other side of the coin of conscientiousness, but is usually accepted with satisfaction by the human resources crowd.

Refugio
Local time: 18:06
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 485
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +6
punctual


Explanation:
dedicated
friendly
hardworking
focussed
informed
good communicator
diligent
detail-oriented
literate
fluent
computer literate
methodical
organised

to name but a few
hth

jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:06
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 773

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  eldira: quite a few
15 mins
  -> Thanks
agree  Chris Rowson (X): I´d hire you immediately. :-)
41 mins
  -> Maybe I should be thinking about updating my own CV...:-))
agree  Steffen Walter: Don't do it, Chris, she's one of the HR bunch herself ;-))
50 mins
  -> Thanks ??!!??
agree  Sarah Ponting: Wow, you're Mr Perfect! ;-)
1 hr
  -> I wish....
agree  Jamiewalke: lol
16 hrs
agree  Tanja Abramovic (X): And don' t forget " Able to perform well under pressure".
23 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +9
What are your assets?


Explanation:
Do you know what your strengths (and weaknesses) are? That alone would be a good asset. It is called self-knowledge. It ranks very high on the list of personal (and professional) virtues.

Others who know you very well are often a good source of knowledge about the characteristics to which you, like all of us, may have a blind spot. Ask your friends and acquaintences if you are genuinely interested in gaining greater self-knowledge. You will be surprised to hear some of the things (good and bad) they will tell you about yourself.

The rest of us in ProZland have no clue because we do not know you. If all you want is a list of adjectives, try a standard manul on virtues. look the relevant virtues up in a thesaurus, and decide which terms are most useful for your purpose.

I don't see anything in your question about your purpose. The assumption by other members seems to be that you are going through an interview process, possibly in conjunction with a job application. That may or may not be the case.

If you are being interviewed for a job, a list of adjectives won't help you. HR interviewers are not interested in a list of adjectives (or nouns, for that matter). They are interested in one or two salient characteristics that you can support with real examples. Verbs are probably your best munitions here. For that, you hardly need any help. If you know what the characteristics are but have difficulty naming them, try describing them to us, and we will help you name them.


Fuad

Fuad Yahya
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 893
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sarah Ponting
25 mins
agree  awilliams
32 mins
agree  Endre Both: :-)
47 mins
agree  LJC (X)
1 hr
agree  Peter Coles: Absolutely right. Working out out one's own strengths and weaknesses (with examples) is an important part of preparing for an interview and can't be done effectively by ticking them off on a list provided by somebody else.
2 hrs
agree  vixen
4 hrs
agree  Jamiewalke: A professional approach to a difficult question
15 hrs
agree  Tanja Abramovic (X)
22 hrs
agree  AhmedAMS
314 days
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1 day 11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
how can I best describe my own qualities


Explanation:
my take

Jonathan MacKerron
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 615
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